Oust-Leni rally now circulating petition urging Duterte to declare a revolutionary government and revert to Marcos’ Martial Law Constitution

By Raïssa Robles

My thanks to Jerome Aning of Philippine Daily Inquirer for sharing online a copy of the petition that intends to kill Philippine democracy and replace it with one-man rule.

It is now turning out that the political exercise going on at the Luneta Grandstand right now is not simply a rally to pressure Vice President Leni Robredo to resign.

It is the first open attempt to gather support for Duterte to turn his democratically-elected leadership into a dictatorship. It is what Marcos, his role model, did in 1972.

Eerily, the petition is urging Duterte to commit a coup d’état on the presidency – which is what Marcos also did – and impose a revolutionary government.

The petition asks that this revolutionary government scrap the 1987 Philippine Constitution and revert the country to the 1973 Constitution – the charter that Marcos forced the 1972 Constitutional Convention into approving.

The 1973 Constitution, which the petition refers to, made it constitutional and legal for the President to arrest and jail anyone for years without charges, legislate laws, muzzle the Supreme Court and do pretty much anything without accountability.

In short, the 1973 Constitution allowed the President to govern as a TYRANT.

The petition now being circulated in Luneta claims that the revolutionary period would only last two years and set up a federal form of government.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE that once you give a tyrant all the powers, he would abide by that time frame or do what you wish. By that time, there is nothing to prevent him from doing anything because the 1987 Constitution would by then be gone.

If that happens, Duterte would be THE POWER all to himself, with no checks and balances and no accountability.

Marcos’ Martial Law lasted all of 14 years until he was chased out of the country. By then his regime had killed and tortured thousands of Filipinos, stolen billions of dollars and all but destroyed Philippine democratic institutions.

The 1981 alleged lifting of Martial Law by Marcos was only a paper lifting.

I know. I was there, right in Malacanang Palace where I watched the dictator himself announce the “lifting” of Martial Law.

Below is the petition now being circulated, which absolutely violates the oath of office that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte took on June 30, 2016 when he said:

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and conscientiously fulfill my duties as President of the Philippines, preserve and defend its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to every man, and consecrate myself to the service of the Nation. So help me God.”

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NUTS. . . and aren’t they committing a crime like ‘Inciting to sedition’? which is:

ART. 142. Inciting to Sedition. – The penalty of prision correctional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any person who, without taking any direct part in the crime of sedition, should incite others to the accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations tending to the same end, or upon any person or persons who shall utter seditious words or speeches, write, publish, or circulate scurrilous libels against the Republic of the Philippines or any of the duly constituted authorities thereof, or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in executing the functions of his office, or which tend to instigate others to cabal and meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite people against the lawful authorities or to disturb the peace of the community, the safety and order of the Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil practices.

Something is done for a reason, and the real reason for doing it may not be evident on the surface especially if it is done with an element of misinformation, or misdirection.

There are several possible reasons why a certain group (or groups) may want to oust Leni Robredo from the Vice-Presidency and for Duterte to declare a revolutionary government:

1. The group saw an opportunity to make money for undertaking the initiative.
2. The persons behind the initiative have sagging public recognition and want to return to public limelight.
3. The persons have been cast aside for sometime and felt the need to become relevant again on social issues.
4. They want to gain political capital from the Duterte administration.
5. They want to release a trial balloon to gauge public sentiment on the initiative if it were to push through.

Whatever is the real motivation any attempt at ousting the Vice-president and declaring a revolutionary government is bound to fail.

As of now, Duterte is already treading in dangerous water with his political persecution of Senator Leila De Lima. If he were to include the widely popular Robredo in his political witch-hunt he would be mixing an incendiary cocktail that is bound to explode in his face.

As I have commented before in my blog post at JoeAm’s:

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Duterte might be floating the idea of declaring martial law in the entire country but under the current atmosphere I don’t think he will do that unless he is real stupid and crazy. The reality is that he does not have a bonafide grassroots political structure to support him. Although Duterte’s supporters comprise a super-majority in both houses of Congress, majority of his supporters are turncoats and political opportunists who jumped into the Duterte bandwagon and are likely to jump ship again when the political wind change direction. At best, he can count on a handful of diehard political supporters, most of which are fraternity brothers.

It is also doubtful that Duterte can count on the loyal support of the military 100%. Many career military officials are strongly anti-communists and do not share his anti-U.S. stance. And there is discontent among many senior military officials whose well-deserved promotions have been side-steeped by political patronage.
And it seems like Duterte does not have complete control of the PNP as is evidenced by his failure to prosecute the PNP generals whom he publicly identified and humiliated as drug lords, and by his suspension of his ‘war on drugs’ as it became apparent that police officials are getting out of control. It must be recalled that EDSA 2 finally turned the corner only after then PNP Chief Panfilo Lacson withdraw his support of his erstwhile friend and benefactor Pres. Joseph Estrada, in favor of Gloria Arroyo.

As far as his supposedly 16 million voter-supporters, many of them are ‘soft-supporters’ who are already expressing disappointment over his many broken election promises.

sardinas housing, not for long yata. magkapamilyang kadamay living next to each other, as soon as they got the title, whose to stop them if they remove or knock down a wall and make their living space bigger? making two units as one. and if they make extensions outwards and upwards, goodbye sardinas housing, hello multi-storey living.

There is talk that a number of housing projects were not really intended for the policemen and soldiers but for those informal settlers living in the esteros and those who are at risk when there is flooding. Houses were not occupied yet as the beneficiaries are still being processed.

If true, kadamay members took something from their own lot who deserve the units more than them.

Heard that the administration realized and knew of the correct beneficiaries soon after making a more thorough check. So there lies the problem….

it’s good that the controversy of pantyleon is now the talk-of-town issue. at least the people is now aware of the evil-that-men-do in the lower house which alvarez heads. the idea of railroading the long-desired dream of the psycho to impose ML is now, more or less, in the sideline.

so, palit-bise is being instigated and sueno is fired…still LIC bing applied by the “bright” boys of the psyco.

love guru, pantyliner itong si alvarez! 6 kids from different women, aside from his 2 legals ones: 8 kids in all. may harem siyang patago-tago. alvarez ought to introduce the kids to one another so they’ll know who is who, else they’ll end up marrying each other, committing incest and in turn, having kids with genetic defect like maybe, autism.

from sueno to valdez now, there is a growing rift between bong go and jun evasco – the two trusted men of du30.
jason aquino is a good friend of du30 eldest son paolo
while valdez is evasco’s trusted champion and foot soldier in the NFA.

from rappler: Evasco of his trusted champion and foot soldier in the NFA.

LET’S FUND OUR OWN RALLY TO PROTECT DUTERTE!
by D.A.V.A.O. Movement
This movement aims to protect the desire of President Duterte to rebuild the nation by stopping drugs, criminality and corruption….
OngoingQUEZON CITY, PH
Volunteer
Raised: $47,571.06

long queue in airport immigration due to demoralized personnel? Corrupt immigration officials and employees were used to collecting overtime pay by hanging around airport. Worst is their extortion activities in airports have been curtailed. They are retaliating by calling absent or sick calls frequently from work, filing mass leave and resigning to look for other govt jobs.

They were spoiled due to corrupt immigration officials. As usual the public suffers. Tourism us affected too.
Since govt knows how many arrivals and departures occur daily in NAIA, it’s inconceivable why they didnt train and assign many personnel daily.

As usual the cause is Corruption from collecting undeserving overtime pay by supervising officials that has been going on for decades. these officials have already figured out their monthly take from corruption as part of their income. They have luxurious lifestyles, children in prestigious schools, mistresses and frequent foreign travels. The income was drastically cut off so they devised ways to bring back up their income from corruption.

Law of supply and demand at work thru corruption in Immigration and DOJ office.

mangungunsumi yang bongbong na yan sa dilg. getting the post is not everything, he still has to hold it down and perform a job. if he can work with digong – fine, if not, makakalbaryo siya. then, there is bong go who seems to be the real power, bong marcos may have to answer to both digong and bong go. matitiis kaya ni bong marcos ito? being under digong and bong go’s thumbs and being told what to do by them may not be ideal work condition. there will come a time na magkakasagutan sila: two against one.

You people who are against Pareng Digong, continue your relentless obstruction of his campaign promises to the electorate and you will “reap” a groundswell of support for this call for a revolutionary government similar to the one established by Cory Aquino back in 1986. You will be sorry, as you will be the first targets of the New Order, backed by no less than the military, the police and more than 90% of the entire Filipino population. You had better start applying for foreign visas, selling whatever properties you have here in order to start a new life somewhere else. You do not belong in the Philippines; you have no place here.

The ICC will take care of your Pareng Digong. From Wiki…The ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The ICC is intended to complement existing national judicial systems and it may therefore only exercise its jurisdiction when certain conditions are met, such as when national courts are unwilling or unable to prosecute criminals or when the United Nations Security Council or individual states refer investigations to the Court.

helter skelter na si pareng digong, talked about killing right in front of little boy scouts, himself dressing up as boy scout, much like jejomar binay who previoulsy dressed as boy scout, boys kawat, he, he, he. pareng digong blames kiko pangilinan for crime committed by minors and younger people. so what is boy scout movement going to do to minimize crime done by younger people? kill those that tried to discipline them? give their parents the closed fist (bugbog) for trying to make them do homework? kill those that dont agree with them?

The sly and devious contradictions continue… Remember the D’s pronouncement that the VP was welcome to the cabinet? She was later told she didn’t have to attend the meetings anymore. Remember when it was announced that the President believed she was not privy to the alleged “cheating” by the LP during the elections? BBM lodged a “recount” case against her. Remember when Malacanang issued a statement that she didn’t have any part in any destabilization efforts against the sitting Duck? Mocha Uson, along with the whole of Trollandia lambasted her for being ambitious and wanting to be President. Remember when DU30 spoke about not wanting an impeachment against her? His allies were quick to say they will proceed with impeachment raps even without the blessing of their god. And just when was that conciliatory dinner extended to her and her family? Now this palit-bise rally by the following of you-know-who… Watch the movie Idiocracy and things will be put into the right perspective. Dumbing down a nation: it’s more fun in the Philippines! .

A scathing editorial has just been published by the Times on T… But it might as well be about D. The parallelism is too obvious to ignore:
“He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation,” the Times wrote.

Duterte is beset with complaints of corruption by people close to him. First were his Lex Taliones brods, then there was Lavinia, Sueno is next on the guillotine. Aguirre is still a hard suspect based from some govt officials.

His people are wary of asking “commission” from deals they facilitate in their department because they are suspicious of their fellow officials as snitches.

Their new modus of corruption is called “skimming” used by Cesar Montano from Tourism and Jimmy Bondoc of PAGCOR. easily done by officials in the entertainment industry by organizing pro Duterte rallies.

It’s no coincidence that both Montano and Bondoc claimed their dept spent 1million pesos funds for their rallies disguised as entertainment expenses of their department. Why 1 million? Any govt employee involved in this kind of representation expenses know this is within the budget limit without required bidding for the project. It’s no coincidence also that the primary entertainters for the rally are Montano and Bondoc. Being paid entertainters themselves their managers or talents agents could be paid for their services without putting their names submitted to their departments. Neat, eh! Corruption to the bone.

The way it’s going for Duterte, by next year, half of his appointed officials would be fired by him for corruption

That GAVA movement is created by Bondoc…Was he not supposed to work for pagcor instead of organizing rally’s? Tax is paying his salary diba?
D.A.V.A.O. Movement
Founded on:
2017-03-18
Type:
Non-Profit
Address:
Quezon City, Quezon City
Metro Manila, Philippines
Email:[email protected]

Lota Villotes did explain where to donate, by gavagives.com.
There search the video from Duterte Luneta
You find out the organizers are Davao movement
The contact details were in the web page from the gavagives page about the luneta rally

“gava” is a site supposed to be for charity purpose and funds raised are for the benefits of the poor. If they have collected that much donation, I think D.A.V.A.O has missed led people. (look at https://www.gavagives.com/explore/ourpartners” ) the list of partners are of charity institution or foundations.

I strongly think gava should not allow D.A.V.A.O to use their site to solicit fund. They (D.A.V.A.O) has a different agenda. SEC must also take a look into them. I think there is a law or something with regards of collecting donations?

This is what happens when we allow porno stars and political wannabes to shape politics. Di lang nadadagdagan ang ARTICLES sa constitution, iibahin pa to allow an unstable mind to be at the helm of governance, without any form of check and balance. Reading all the developments from back home, one can’t seem to fathom how the whole country has been put under stupor with Fentanyl. I wonder for how long this sleeping spell seemingly cast over the land will prevail and what will finally break it.

PAGCOR official, Entertaintment Director Jimmy Bondoc is one of the organizers, in charge of funding. Did his funds come from PAGCOR?

Bondoc has political ambition intimidated to his close friends. He wants to run for higher office in MetroManila or if successful in his quest for national recognition by promoting pro Duterte rallies, he will run for Conggressman or senator.

If you want transparency Raissa, I will do that for you. I am one of the more than a thousand donors. Please do your homework before you stir the pot and cause destabilisation in this country by writing unfounded rumors.

They say 1100 but i count about 300 in the webpage over the last 14 days……average more or less 25 dollar each…
The page was founded 18/3/2017
By the way…the gavagives Duterte page in now down….How to check the donations now?
Where is your transparancy? Are we coming to close to Mr. Bondoc Po?

Ms.Joyce Herrera Wong, who are you really by saying Raissa has stir the pot and cause destabilization in this country. How can you possibly know a thousand donors when you said you are one of the thousand donors in order to provide Raissa a transparency she is looking for? Are you one of the organizer in that event? Raissa and our group just want to know eactly who financed the event and you are becoming so defensive. If there’s nothing to hide just simply give the information. Raissa has NEVER write unfounded rumors, she is very good in investigation and she provides the group a detailed information, and from there we made a discussion… By the way are you in the Philippines or in China? Just asking.

Just an fyi there was an online statement regarding where the funds came in. There is a site called gavagives. where supporters all over the world sent their contributions. They were able to raise 2M. I even saw some posts saying that the site went down for some time, probably due to sudden increase of the number of people trying to access it.

Now if there were cabinets who joined the protest we cannot just say that they have used money from their dept to help fund the activity. That is just plain assumption.

Yes we do have freedom of speech. But just like any kind of freedom it comes with a responsibility. That is to make sure that all we are saying are truth (at least to the best of our knowledge). Now, if you have proof that any of those cabinet members or government staff who attended or facilitated this event have used have used government funds illegally, then by all means file a case in the court.

The thing is nowadays assumptions are being passed as truth by people. And people who are too lazy to do critical thinking and blind to see logic and reasoning tends to pass these ideas not being mindful of the effect.

If you are helping in spreading unfounded news that tends to malign people or whoever, then your are not helping the situation at all.

Jimmy Bondoc used PAGCOR revolving fund from his office approved by Andra Domingo for 1 million pesos. Crowd sourcing funding raised was another 1 million pesos. Bondoc claimed he spent half of 2 million and the rest of the money is in his pocket for future use.

This according to Jimmy Bondoc he revealed in his interview last night to Phili Inquirer reporter. Read the Inquirer for more PAGCOR officials who were in the rally. Andrea Domingo and Camen Pedrosa were both speakers rallying the crowd.

3 high ranking officials of PAGCOR leading the rally needing funding smells government money spent for the rally. PAGCOR profits should go to healthcare ofthe poor according to Duterte but PAGCOR has revolving funds for entertainment controlled by its Entertaintment Director Bondoc, Administrator Domingo and approval by directors which includes Pedroza.

Trifecta using govt funds. PAGCOR has no business funding political rallies except for gaming related events and charity related entertainment events. The rally was neither gaming related or a charity affair.

This idea of inserting a revolutionary agenda at the Palit-Bise rally was circulated in Facebook two days ago by Jose Alejandrino, the boyfriend of Carmen Pedrosa. Pedrosa herself circularized this in her column at the Philippine Star last Sunday.

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